Brooke Ciardelli is an award-winning producer and director of festivals, events and theatrical productions
From large-scale open-air spectacles and city-wide events to new-writing in immersive venues; from leading an acclaimed US regional theater to serving as a founding member of an African social circus; from adapting classical and modern works to the stage to developing new works in musical theatre and beyond.
Brooke’s producing experience spans live events in theater, music, circus, festivals and special events.
She founded award-winning regional theater Northern Stage, leading over 100 productions and establishing collaborative relationships with artists and organizations around the world.
Producing credits include Circus Zambia’s performance for Prince Harry in Lusaka; the opening ceremony of Harare International Festival of the Arts, and MIT’s yearly Cambridge Science Festival, which Brooke has produced since 2022, leading an on-going immersive partnership with Boston Fashion Week.
From local, artist-driven events to international tours, from new works to classics, Brooke delivers compelling stories and experiences to audiences of all sizes.
In a career spanning more than 60 productions to date, Brooke has directed 8 world premieres and 11 national or regional premieres in the US, Europe and Africa. She has been honored three times by the New England Theatre Conference’s Moss Hart Awards for Excellence in Theater.
Brooke’s work is often characterized by internationally-recognized talent in intimate venues. Highlights include a staged reading of Arthur Miller’s then-unpublished Resurrection Blues with the playwright himself in residence, directing Patrick Stewart and Lisa Harrow in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and staging numerous chamber productions of musicals with leading Broadway and West End performers.
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Brooke has adapted a number of classical pieces for the stage. She received unprecedented permission from the Arthur Miller Estate to create a modernized, Syrian-American adaptation of the original Italian-American A View From The Bridge.
Brooke’s adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, O Myths was performed as the basis of an international exchange between actors from New York, Zimbabwe, Mexico and Romania.
Her adaptation The Shrew Tamer was received as “a delicious new comedy,” with Ed Siegel of the Boston Globe commenting “Ciardelli has fashioned a play of significant historical interest”. Brooke has also co-adapted a 1950’s farcical comedy From the Manor Torn.
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